The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
Jeremy BenthamThe addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
Jeremy BenthamPublicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Jeremy BenthamWe may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.
Jeremy Bentham